The Bureau of the Cortes of Castilla y León for the XII Legislature has been officially constituted with representation from the three groups with the most weight in the regional Parliament --PP, PSOE and Vox-- and with two members from each of them. This distribution is the result of the pact closed yesterday between PP and Vox, by which the 'populars' ceded to those of Santiago Abascal one of the positions they initially did not have secured, beyond the third secretariat that their votes did guarantee.
The new president of the Cortes is the 'popular' Francisco Vázquez, who had already served as first vice-president in the two previous legislatures and who becomes the only member to repeat in the leadership of this body. The Bureau is renewed with five new additions and maintains a gender-balanced composition, made up of three men and three women.
The First Vice-Presidency passes into the hands of Vox, in application of the agreement reached with the PP, and will be occupied by Carlos Menéndez, from Salamanca. The Second Vice-Presidency corresponds to the PSOE and falls to the deputy secretary of the PSOE of Castilla y León, Nuria Rubio, from León.
Regarding the secretariats, they have been distributed among the three formations with the highest number of procurators. The PSOE, with 30 seats, has obtained the First Secretariat, which will be held by the party's Organization secretary, Daniel de la Rosa.
The PP, with 33 procurators, assumes the Second Secretariat, which will be occupied by the Soria native Rocío Lucas, until today Minister of Education in the Executive of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, whose dismissal has been published this Tuesday in the BOCyL. Lucas has received 27 votes in favor, while Susana Suárez, from Vox, takes the Third Secretariat thanks to 20 supports (14 from Vox and six from the PP).
In all the votes to elect the members of the Bureau, five blank votes have been counted, coinciding with the number of seats of the Mixed Group (UPL, 3; Por Ávila, 1; and Soria ¡Ya!, 1).
With this configuration, the scheme of the previous legislature is maintained, in which the three majority parties were also represented on the Board. The difference is that now the formation with the highest number of procurators, the PP, does assume the Presidency of the Chamber.